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...Cherry Orchard. Thus frankly symbolic, it portrays the kind of people, the ways of living and the states of mind that helped produce the 1914 war. Into the ship-shaped house of an aged English sea captain (Maurice Evans), himself the voice of a more high-mettled era, there troop, like creatures into the Ark, a ruling-class woman, a femme fatale, a shy, dashing Englishman, a footless, philandering one, an upstart capitalist, his kind, downtrodden factotum-even an unexpected burglar. At the opposite end, in the assemblage, from grizzled old Captain Shotover is bright-eyed young Ellie Dunn, standing...
...frontier had been organized into fighting units by Iraqi officers who had fled the brutal justice of Kassem's People's Court. From Jordan, where young King Hussein still dreams of succeeding to the vanished Iraqi throne of his murdered cousin, King Feisal, came reports of troop and aircraft movements toward the Iraqi border. And on Iraq's southern frontier, Saudi Arabian agents, anxious to prevent either Hussein or the Communists from taking power in Baghdad, moved among border tribesmen spreading money and promises...
Every fall, as delegates to the 82-nation U.N. General Assembly troop into the glass palace on Manhattan's East River, the world undergoes its equivalent of the annual visit to the dentist. Last week, as the Assembly's 14th session got into full swing, the patient's mouth was wide open and, amid plenty of hollering and yelping, virtually all of mankind's political cavities, abscesses and fillings were mercilessly probed...
...Khrushchev's inspection, reporters and photographers went into an encircling movement through the tall corn, materialized suddenly under the noses of Garst and visitors. "Get back! Get back there!" bellowed Garst, surprised and angry. "Bring those horses in here; ride 'em down." he commanded a mounted troop of Greene County Pleasure Riders. "Get back there or I'll kick you out. even if your name is Harrison Salisbury." he threatened, and as good as his word, he planted a sturdy Garst brogan on the leg of The New York Times's reporter-probably the mildest mannered...
...below earlier boastful figures. And for all his claims that Red China is moving into an entirely new phase of human development, Mao has found no other way to whip up his unenthusiastic masses than the timeworn device employed by every despot since the world began: border troubles, troop movements, and the bogeyman of foreign attack...